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Elusive subjects : biography as gendered metafiction
Susanna Scarparo
Leicester : Troubador, 2005
ISBN: 1904744192
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Book description
This is an innovative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary
reflection on the nature of women's biographical writing. In
discussing how a number of writers from Italy, the United States and
Australia rescue, or reinterpret, forgotten and excluded notable women from
the past, Scarparo presents a controversial theory of biography based on
metafictional dialogues between biographers as self-declared writers of
fiction and their biographical subjects.
Elusive Subjects offers a perceptive discussion of the varying
degrees to which writers such as Banti, Bellonci, Daitch and Modjeska render
their presence as story-tellers visible. In doing so, Scarparo
questions the concealment that the writing of history and biography have
traditionally involved, and discusses feminist biography as gendered
metafiction.
About the author
Susanna Scarparo is a Cassamarca lecturer in Italian Studies
at Monash University. She has a PhD in Italian Studies and
Comparative Literature and has published articles on life writing,
Italian feminist theory and Italian Australian literature.
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